Liberia, Aug. 5 -- Ask people close to Liberia's joint drug investigation what's standing between the two foreign nationals now in custody and a courtroom in the United States, and the answer keeps coming back to a single word: Nexus. Sam Gaye, Director of Liberia's Executive Protection Agency and a man with unusual authority to make the comparison, put it plainly. "The difference between this case and that one," he said, weighing the current scandal against the case he helped build in 2010, "the players and actors knew that the drugs were destined for the US. In this case, the drugs were bound for Europe."

By Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontageafricaonline.com

It sounds like a technicality. It isn't. American drug law reaches remarkab...